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It will be seen by the above report that there were 23,707 cases of tardiness and 233,852 cases of absence of those accounted as belonging to our schools during the past year. How much this evil has detracted from the usefulness of our schools I will not attempt to estimate. A part of this evil is of course unavoid- able ; but the great mass of it is without excuse, and should be remedied. This is not all, nor is it the principal evil to be con- tended against by the friends of education in this city.
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The greater evil is the great number of children between the ages of five and fifteen, who are not represented in the average number belonging to our schools, but who are at this age kept at home, put out at work, or allowed to run at large.
The assessors of this city returned the number of minors between the ages of five and fifteen in May last, eight thousand two hundred and ninety-seven (8297). The average number belonging to our public schools the past year was seven thousand and sixty-four (7064) the number belonging to private schools was six hundred and twenty (620) six hundred and eighty four (684) of those in the public schools were over fifteen years of age. How many in private schools, I do not know, and to say nothing of the unascertainable number who are crowded into our schools before they are five years of age, there remains an average of twelve hundred and sixty-one, (1261) children in this city between the ages of five and fifteen who do not belong to our schools, or do not make themselves members, by their attendance. Now add the seven hundred on an average who are counted as belonging who are absent each day from school, and we have the alarming fact that in this city there are nineteen hundred and sixty- one (1961) out of school all the time the schools are in session. Is it not a mortifying fact that so many of our citizens so little appreciate the advantages for education so liberally offered to all, by our city and state ? Everything possible is done to make our schools attractive, and to induce children to attend.
If we are to maintain our position as a highly educated com- munity, there is still plenty of work to be done by the friends of education among us ; and if all other means fail, the safety of the republic demands that we protect ourselves against the ignorance which is the hand-maid of vice and crime and therefore destruc- tive to all good government ; and that we protect ourselves by more rigid laws and a more rigid execution of them for
CUMPULSORY EDUCATION.
There are many persons, even in the city of Worcester, who look upon the enforcement of the law compelling the education of children as an infringement of the natural rights of parents. While most will admit that children should be educated, yet they are entirely opposed to having a truant officer to execute the
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law. "They are in favor of the law, on general principles, but are opposed to its execution."
But the practical opposition comes principally from parents' in many cases, idle and dissipated themselves, they desire to live on the small pittance earned by their children, when those chil- dren should be in school. There are undoubtedly many cases of poverty where parents really need all their children can earn to " keep the wolf from the door." Such cases should be provided for at public cost : it is a duty the state owe to its children.
But how many there are even among those who stand well in the community, who, if they see a truant officer leading a reluctant urchin to school, denounce the officer and the laws as tyrannical, or think that the boy should be per- suaded to go, instead of being, as they express it, dragged along. They forget that powers of persuasion on such are of little avail. The very idea of compelling such a subject to learn to read, write, and cipher is to their minds tyrannical. They shut their eyes to the fact that the country swarms with vast hordes of children, heirs of penury, ignorance and crime, whose parents refuse to give them a chance of education which the public schools offer, but who, nevertheless in a few years demand and obtain as full rights of citizenship as the oldest and wisest men among us.
The state is an association of adults for mutual protection. A child is not a citizen except in embryo, he is utterly destitute of subjective choice and co-operation. The parent alone is respon- sible to God and the state whether it shall continue in ignorance, or whether, when it is of age, it shall take its place in the great association as an intelligent partner, or a brute.
The state in justice to itself should demand of every person claiming the right of citizenship at least an elementary knowledge of his duties ; and as this knowledge must come from the volition of the parent, and not of the child, the state should enforce the rights of the child from the parent. So much for the claims of the state ; now for the child. The little urchin to whose sensa- tive shrinking from the tyranny which would compel him inside a school-room, and who enlists the enthusiastic sympathy of so many, came into the world without his choice. So far his parents have forced upon him starvation, vice and misery. His whole training has been compulsory. Back of his wretched family life,
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stands the state power with its mysterious machinery of law and punishments ready to grind him to pieces if he infringe on them. The chances are ten to one that it will so grind him. The mill is ready ; first the lockup, then the jail, then the penitentiary, then the gallows. Here all along is compulsion ; his only chance of escape lies in the hands of his parents to give or withhold at pleasure, unless the state steps in by her officer. The child has a right to demand that he shall be made able, at least, to read the laws, which at the penalty of his life, he must obey. The ques- tion is one which now touches nearly our national life. This country is the receptacle for the ignorant and degraded from every land. It is for us to decide whether they shall be com- pelled, to accept for their children the help the state offers, to lift them to the level of intelligent beings, or be suffered to leave, like breeding barnacles, a weight and a mass of corruption upon us, which may sink us at last.
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TABLE Showing the Nationality of Parents of Scholars in the Public Schools.
School.
Teacher.
U. S.
Provinces.
British
Ireland.
England.
Germany.
Scotland.
France.
other countries
Walnut St.,
HIGH SCHOOL. |Abner H. Davis.
233
56
3
GRAMMAR, GRADE IX.
Belmont st.
Edward I. Comins,
32
9
2
1
1
Dix st.,
Addison A. Hunt,
44
1
1
1
1
Woodland st.,
Samuel E. Fitch,
50
3
1
Lamartine st.,
Charles C. Foster,
36
26
3
Ledge st.,
Henry M. Harrington,
14
28
1
176
67
3
5
1
3
GRAMMAR, GRADE VIII.
Belmont st.,
Vashti E. Hapgood,
26
10
1
3
1
Thomas st.,
Harriet G. Waite,
11
21
1
1
Dix st.,
Sarah E. Dyer,
37
4
1
Woodland st.,
Mary F. Wentworth,
38
5
Lamartine st.,
Mary E. Eastman,
23
24
1
3
New Worcester
Charlotte N. Munger,
20
22
1
So. Worcester
A. Hills,
16
23
1
Quinsigamond
Myra J. Wetmore,
17
12
3
213
128
2
10
4
2
GRAMMAR, GRADE VII.
Belmont st.,
Mary A. Warren,
41
6
4
Thomas st.,
A. E. McCambridge,
17
30
Dix st ..
Eldora M. Aldrich,
43
5
2
1
1
1
Woodland st.,
Minnie S. Fitch,
31
4
Ledge st.,
Joanna F. Smith,
16
34
1
1
1
New Worcester
S. Lizzie Carter,
22
7
4
3
213
89
7
9
2
1
GRAMMAR, GRADE VI.
Belmont st.,
Sarah W. Phillips,
29
15
2
4
2
Thomas st.,
Mary A. Harrington,
25
16
3
2
Dix st.,
Ellen Merrick,
38
7
1
5
1
1
Elm st.,
Etta J. Rounds,
14
24
2
1
1
Sycamore st.,
Carrie A. George,
37
11
1
1
1
1
Woodland st.,
Mary M. Lawton,
31
5
1
1
1
1
Lamartine st.,
Mary A. Smith,
3
40
2
5
1
2
Ledge st.,
Maria P. Cole,
10
38
1
1
Union Hill
Ellen G. Wheeler,
31
11
2
2
3
Salem St.,
Rebecca Barnard,
28
12
1
1
-
257
205
13
28
6
9
1 2
Sycamore st.,
Ann S. Dunton,
43
3
Laura L. Newton,
11
26
1
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School.
Teacher.
U. S.
Provinces.
British
Ireland.
England.
Germany.
Scotland.
France.
other countries
SECONDARY, GRADE V.
Belmont st.,
Lizzie S. Nichols,
31
14
1
1
1
Thomas st.,
Elizabeth H. Coe,
22
27
1
Dix st.,
Kate A. Meade,
27
17
2
4
Pleasant st.,
Carrie E. Gilbert,
45
4
1
1
Sycamore st.,
Carrie R. Clements,
41
17
1
1
Woodland st.,
Mary J. Davis,
43
10
1
1
Lamartine st.,
Nellie L. Moore,
42
2
1
8
Ledge st.,
Charlotte N. Follett,
3
36
2
1
Providence.,
Elizabeth E. King,
10
27
4
Salem st.,
Mary A. E. Adams, Helen M. Harlow,
12
16
5
2
4
East Worcester
Harriet Hathaway,
1
30
1
1
So. Worcester
Sarah E. Bigelow,
18
34
3
3
3
1
Quinsigamond
Anna C. Perry,
4
37
5
287
361
20
22
18
7
SECONDARY, GRADE IV.
Belmont st.,
Esther G. Chenery,
40
6
2
3
1
Thomas st.,
Abbie F. Knowles,
25
12
4
3
1
Dix st.,
Elizabeth E. Daniels,
38
7
1
4
1
1
Pleasant st.,
Addie H. Barnes,
49
2
3
2
Sycamore st.,
Jennie A. Green,
28
12
3
5
1
1
2
Lamartine st.,
Matilda Parker,
5
37
8
2
6
1
1
Providence st.,
Agnes R. Dame,
7
28
6
2
1
2
Ash st.,
Sylvia N. Stackpole,
13
23
2
3
5
1
E. Worcester
Annie Brown,
44
44
1
New
66
Adeliza Perry,
22
10
6
3
South
66
Ellen M. Boyden,
19
39
8
3
2
Front st.,
Libbie H. Day,
16
27
1
2
1
1
307
387
48
30
25
10
1
4
PRIMARY, GRADE III.
Belmont st.,
Mary T. Gale,
31
10
6
4
2
1
1
Thomas st.,
Eunie M. Gates,
19
32
4
3
3
1
1
Dix st.,
Rebecca Jones,
89
30
10
12
5
1
1
Edgeworth st.,
Sarah M. Brigham,
5
50
1
1
1
1
2
Mason st.,
Julia M. Martin,
39
2
1
2
1
1
Pleasant st.,
Josephine A. Hunt,
41
1
1
Sycamore st.,
Sarah W. Clements,
31
21
2
1
1
Woodland st.,
Lizzie C. Goodwin,
34
12
2
2
Lamartine st.,
Louisa A. Dawson,
5
39
8
2
3
Ledge st.,
Eliza F. Prentice,
8
51
2
4
Providence st.,
Martha J. Morse,
15
24
9
2
1
2
Salem.,
Emma J. Claflin,
22
22
5
1
1
Ash st.,
Helen M. Shattuck,
7
40
2
1
1
1
1
Front st.,
East Worcester
Mary O. Whitmore, Ella M. McFarland,
3
37
3
1
1
41
1
2
1
1
Ledge st.,
Margaret M. Geary,
6
44
2
2
Mary J. Mack,
6
40
2
1
2
Woodland st.,
Linnie M. Allen,
33
12
4
1
Edgeworth st.,
Hattie E. Clarke,
29
19
3
2
Ash st.,
31
Tamerson S. Darling,
-
1
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School.
Teacher.
U. S.
Provinces.
British
Ireland.
England.
Germany.
Scotland.
France.
other countries;
New
66
¡Ida A. E. Kenney,
20
17
12
2
1
South
Ann E. Hall,
17
26
1
9
1
Adriatic
Martha T. Wyman,
8
30
6
7
Quinsigamond
Lenora E. Perry,
17
28
2
4
Union Hill
Abbie A. Welles,
32
11
2
1
443
523
79
60
20
10
3
8
INTERMEDIATE PRIMARY, GRADE II.
Belmont st.,
Susie G. Gale,
35
12
5
3
2
1
1
Thomas st.,
Amanda M. Phillips,
14
26
3
3
1
Edgeworth st.,
Susan M. Buttrick,
3
49
1
1
1
1
1
Pleasant st.,
Sarah A. Harrington,
44
1
1
1
1
Sycamore st.,
Emma F. Marsh,
26
22
1
1
Lamartine st.,
Mary E. Kavanaugh-
4
32
14
6
5
2
Ledge st.,
Esther M. Rice,
10
29
3
11
1
Providence st.,
Sarah J. Newton,
7
27
11
1
1
Evelyn Towne,
12
13
17
2
East Worcester.,
Carrie E. Putnam,
1
43
4
South
Susan M. Forbes,
9
35
4
2
Front st.,
Mary E. Trask,
2
45
2
3
2
.
Ash st.,
Abbie J. Reed,
6
30
8
2
1
173
402
76
35
13
7
1
5
SUB-PRIMARY, GRADE I.
Belmont st.,
Ida C. Upton,
41
4
7
2
1
Thomas st.,
Flora J. Osgood,
12
30
10
3
1
2
Edgeworth st.,
Hattie W. Bliss,
11
48
1
1
2
2
Pleasant st.,
Emily M. Halsted,
39
2
4
1
1
Mason st.,
Mary E. Pease,
28
8
10
Sycamore st.,
Nellie C. Thomas,
24
12
2
1
Woodland st.,
Maggie I. 'Melanefy,
32
15
1
1
1
2
Lamartine st.,
Esther B. Smith,
2
26
15
3
5
1
Belle Y. Hoyt,
7
27
13
1
6
1
Ledge st.,
Mary V. Callaghan,
12
48
2
2
1
1
1
Mary E. D. King,
7
40
2
1
1
Providence st., Salem st.,
H. A. Harrington,
27
22
10
1
2
1
1
Ash st.,
Emma H. Barton,
19
40
1
3
1
2
1
Front st.,
Abby Pratt,
3
56
3
2
1
2
East Worcester.,
Mattie A. Collins,
2
56
1
5
Aloysia Radcliffe,
2
62
5
3
Maria J. Metcalf,
5
25
11
3
6
Adriatic st., So. Worcester
Annetta M. Chapin,
19
38
1
4
347
635
142
40
35
12
5
5
24
14
2
7
1
Eliza A. Cook,
Alice M. Prouty,
11
26
20
3
Eliza J. Day;
23
12
A. F. Hemmenway,
16
14
13
1
38
4
3
Hattie A. Smith,
1
-
1
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School.
Teacher.
U. S.
Provinces.
British
Ireland.
England.
Germany.
Scotland.
France.
other countries
SUBURBAN SCHOOLS.
Northville
Abbie E. Clough,
42
4
Tatnuck
Mary J. Packard,
31
2
Valley Falls
Susie A. Partridge,
13
11
7
7
1
Leesville
Ella J. Pratt,
I
11
4
3
Blithewood.,
J. P. Raymond,
18
1
2
2
Bloomingdale
Hattie A. Johnson,
17
10
6
2
1 2
Adams Square
Lottie M. Harrington,
21
8
2
4
Burncoat
Lizzie M. Vaughn,
16
13
North Pond
Emma R. Kendrick,
33
1
Chamberlin
Clara Manley,
17
209
49
30
15
1
4
2
1
UNGRADED SCHOOLS.
Orange st.,
Geo. A. Adams, Persis E. King,
4
29
1
32
1
-
4
61
1
1
AGGREGATE.
High School
233
56
3
Grammar IX.
176
67
3
5
1
3
VIII
213
128
2
10
4
2
1
VI.
257
205
13
23
6
9
1
2
Secondary V.
66
IV
307
387
48
30
25
10
1
4
Primary
III.
443
323
79
60
20
9
3
8
Int. “
II
173
402
76
35
13
7
11
4
Sub. "
I
347
635
143
40
35
12
5
8
Suburban
209
49
30
15
1
8
2
1
Ungraded
4
61
1
1
2862 2763
425
250
125
68
14|29
The parentage 01 children in the Public Schools for the last five years is as follows :
|1867|1868|1869|1870|187]
United States,
2448 2617 2742 2704 2862
British America,.
224
288
277
387
425
Ireland,
2509
2547 2800 2888 2763
England,
174
209
205
257
250
Germany,
83
86
97
123
125
Scotland,
40
46
45
56
68
France, ..
10
9
13
9
14
Other countries,
6
20
21
30
29
Total,
5494 5822
6200
6454 6536
United States, ·
2448
2617 2742 2704 2862
Foreign countries,
3046 3205 3458 3750 3674
N
1
1
VII
213
89
7
9
2
1
287
361
20
22
18
7
1
1
+ 4
The above table does not include the scholars in the Evening or Drawing Schools.
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The following tables are brought down to include the last year and republished. They show the rapid growth of the city and con- sequent expenditures. It will also be seen that the expenditures of the School Department have not increased at so large a ratio as have those of other departments.
The compensation of City Officers is stated as established or reported. Some of them have not been decided upon at present writing, but will not probably vary much, if any, from the figures given.
TABLE, Showing the number of Schools, Teachers and Scholars, and the amount expended for the same from 1850 to 1872.
Year.
Schools.
Teachers.
Scholars.
Expense.
Cost per Scholar.
Expended for School Houses.
1850
35
55
2084
$19,009.11
$ 8.55
$12,282.57
1851
31
55
2037
14,007.65
6.87
11,785.91
1852
31
55
*
19,070.00
4,442.56
1853
33
60
1976
21,162.55
10.71
1854
35
60
2251
24,505.62
10.81
9,634.26
1855
49
69
2564
29,915.59
11.24
9,813.41
1856
49
67
2520
29,992.00
11.90
2,053.47
1857
55
70
2815
32,280.00
11.82
4,100.00
1858
54
70
2919
30,504.09
10.45
4,346.49
1859
56
71
+3824
35,370.98
9.25
7,915.76
1860
59
76
3983
33,497.00
8.41
1861
60
80
4023
33,771.00
8.39
9,963.74
1862
62
83
4198
34,581.00
8.28
4,500.00
1863
67
91
4418
36,383.00
8.23
19,191.34
1864
72
93
4537
46,210.00
10.18
1865
76
94
4720
51,712.00
10.95
15,844.27
1866
84
103
4880
71,101.04
12.64
26,443.66
1867
96
115
5496
75,859.12
13.80
35,043.64
1868
109
124
6112
86,424.52
14.14
47,482.00
1869
116
138
6322
97,651.82
15.44
101,351.87
1870
128
149
6657
¿120,438.60
16.75
138,997.09
1871
141
158
7145
$119,715.98
15.39
93,254.52
*There is no record of the number of scholars in the scholars for this year.
+Prior to 1859, the average membership of the schools is unknown, and the cost per scholar is reckoned on the average attendance. Since 1859, the cost per scholar is reck- oned on the average membership for the year, which accounts for the apparent large increase in the number of scholars, and the apparent decrease of the cost per scholar for the few succeeding years.
The increased cost per soholar since 1863 is accounted for by the large increase in the salaries of the teachers, as well as the increased cost of everything pertaining to the expenditures of the department.
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In 1850, assistant teachers in the Primary Schools received salaries of $150 each ; they now receive $500. The highest salary paid female teachers in Grammar Schools at that time was $350 ; at present they receive $575 to $800.
As late as 1860, the salaries of female teachers ranged from $250 to $350; they now range from $500 to $800, not including the female teachers in the High School, who receive as high as $1000, and we have lost several excellent teachers for the reason that they could command better pay elsewhere.
But large as this increase is, it is more than equalled by the great increase in the salaries of other city officers, and the expense of the supervision of the other depart- ments
This amount includes the cost of permanent improvements in Old Houses.
The number of scholars given is the number belonging at the end of the school year. The expenses for 1871 are for eleven months only.
TABLE. Showing the Salaries of Officers of the City Government in 1850 and for 1872.
1850
1872
Mayor,
- $600 Mayor,
$1500
Treasurer,
600 City Clerks,
2000
City Clerk,
250 Treasurer,
2500
City Physician
100 Auditor,
1500
Highway Commissioner,
600 City Engineer,
2500
Assessors ($300 each),
900 Highway Commissioner,
2500
Solicitor, -
200 Solicitor,
2500
Clerk of Common Council,
150 City Physician,
700
Messenger,
300 Assessors,
3800
City Marshal, -
400 Clerk of Common Council,
250
Chief Engineer,
150 Messenger, -
1100
Sec. of School Board & Visit- ing Schools,
498 City Marshal,
1600
1st, Asst.
1150
$4748.2nd, “
1100
Clerk of overseers of Poor,
1000
Superintendent of Sewers,
1200
Two asst. City Engineers -
2400
Clerk in Engineers office,
1200
Drafting Clerk,
1500
Extra Clerk hire,
5000
Superintendent of Schools,
2500
Secretary & Prudential Com. 1700
Engineer of Fire Department,
500
$42,900
Water Commissioner,
1200
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TABLE Showing the Expenditures of City Government from 1850 to 1872.
1850,
$75,304 20
1851,
79,085 25
1852,
83,984 10
1853,
88,068 87
1854,
136,644 87
1855,
127,926 30
1856,
110,673 23
1857,
116,949 19
1858,
99,050 51
1859,
120,633 61
1860,
124,224 51
1861,
120,551 20
1862,
128,393 99
1863,
142,666 48
1864,
127,857 19
1865,
286,846 78
Water,
$81,986 86
1866,
385,889 66
- 107,318 37
Sewers,
2,118 49
1867,
450,852 77
Water,
87,814 20
Sewers,.
79,745 00
1868, -
543,366 68
Water, -
47,448 90
Sewers,
120,754 82
1869,
845,922 34
Water,
118,673 20
Sewers,
221,793 88
1870, -
- 1,438,237 58
Water,
150,463 42
Sewers,
369,746 00
1871, * -
1,245,264 94
Water,
111,282 30
*Eleven months.
Sewers,
254,657 34
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Location.
Material.
Stories.
Size.
rooms.
Condition.
Estimated Value.
Sq. feet.
Size of Lots
per foot.
Amount.
House and Lot.
Total value of
Walnut st.,
Brick
3
130 x 87 |10
$47,508 |$197,508 |New High School building. 29,849 Old High School building.
Thomas st.,
=
3
75 x 56|10
50,000
Dix st.,
¥
2
96 x 60 10
New,
32,500 24,000
25
6,000
30,000 Hall in French Roof full size of building. 37,500 Hall In French Roof full size of building.
Woodland st.,
"
2
96 x 60 10
32,500
40,670
25
10,167
42,667 |Hall in French Roof full size of building.
Belmont st.,
66
2
2
75 x 52
8
Good,
25,000 12,625
00
12,625
37,625
Two L's 52 x 21, feet each.
Providence st.,
66
3
52 × 50
5
13,000 17,200
50
25,800
38,800
Salem st.,
66
3
59 x 51
6
Fair,
13,500 13,400
30
4,020
17,520
East Worcester
3
62 x 50
6
Good,
18,000 18,150
25
4,537
22,537
.
2
52 x 30
2
Poor,
5,000
9,060
40
3,624
8,624
Summer st.,
Wood 2
51 x 48
4
3,000 18,300
50
9,150
121,150 Not now in use except for evening school. 858 Not occupied.
Mason st.,
2 44 × 30
2
6,000 13,200
15
1,980
7,980
Orange st.,
2
50 x 30
2
7,500
7,188
75
5,391
12,891
Southgate st.,
Wood 2
45 × 30
2
3,600 25,000
12
3,000
6,600
New Worcester
Brick
2
50 x 36
4
10,000 14,900
20
2,980
12,980
Quinsigamond
2
75 × 32
6
New,
23,000 34,500
10
3,450
26,450 L 51 x 33 feet. Hall in French Roof.
South Worcester,
2
75 × 32
6
23,000 29,184
10
2,918
25,918 L 40 x 33 feet.
Hall in French Roof.
1
Poor,
500
4,988
200
700
Leesville,
1
25 x 30
1
300
5,050
75
375
Northville,
Brick 1
73 x 30
Good,
6,000 34,875
1,000
7,000
Union Hill,
Wood 1
38 x 28 1
Fair,
2,000 | 11,000
1,100
3,100
Blithewood,
1
36 x 28
1
Good,
1,500 1 acre
100
1,600
Pond District,
Brick 1
32 x 40
1
3,000 14,000
500
3,500
Tatnuck,
2
43 x 32
2
=
5,000 11,500
300
5,300
Chamberlin,
Wood 1
38 x 22
1
1,200 1/acre
100
1,300
North Pond,
1
40 x 32|
1
1,600 20,300
300
1,900
Burncoat,
Brick|1
31 x 28
1
2,500 21,500
200
2,700
Adams Square,
.
2
62 × 50
4
New,
17,000 30,760
10
3,076
20,076 Hall in French Roof.
567,600
233,575|
801,175
9
27,500
40,000
25
10,000
Ledge st.,
2
90 x 62
9
8
26,000 27,000
20
5,400
32,400 Hall in French Roof, two school rooms.
Sycamore st.,
4
62 x 50
8
20,000 58,000
1 30
17,400
37,400
Pleasant st.,
2
62 × 50
4
12,000 12,555
1 50
6,277
18,277
1
22 x 22
1
100
1,517
50
758
5,000 House sold, to be occupied until July next.
Front st.,
Brick
2
67 x 31
4
Fair, Good,
5,000
20
6,288
36,288 | Hall in French Roof, also school rooms.
Lamartine st.,
96 x 60
New, Old, Good,
9,487 18,000 20,000 25,000
1 00
11,849 25,000
1 25
3
50 x 70 6
-.
School House Lots belonging to the School Department.
Table showing the location, size and value of the School Houses and
102
CITY DOCUMENT .- No. 26.
Edgeworth st.
1
40 x 32
1 Fair,
2,800 22,360
500
2,300
Valley Falls,
Wood 1
28 x 22|
2
10
=
2
96 x 60
Number of school
$150,000 31,672 $150
Estimated value
Remarks.
Ash st.,
30,000 31,440
103
SCHOOLS .- SECRETARY'S REPORT.
OTHER SCHOOL PROPERTY.
3835 Single School desks ... $13,412
400 Single School Desks, High School 2,800
1510 Double Desks 6,200
1275 School Chairs .. 637
750 Teachers' and Common Chairs 600
130 Teachers' Tables
900
80 Teachers' Desks
2,400
145 Clocks. 1,400
108 Morning Glory Stoves and
Pipe 6,480
18 other Coal Stoves and Pipe . 450
33 Wood Stoves and Pipe. 330
85 Coal Hods .. 85
38 Porcelain Kettles 10
75 Coal Shovels 10
8
90 Qua. Dictionaries 450
50 Oca. Dictionaries 100
225 Dictionaries 90
55 Gazetteers 275
60 Manuals Penmanship 24
155 Object Lessons 155
1 Book Case, Secretary's Room 75
1 Book Case, Secretary's Room. 35
1 Book Case, Sup't's Room. ..
40
1 Book Case, Sup't's Room 25 35
1 Desk, Sup't's Room
1 Desk, Secretary's room 35
1 Desk, Secretary's Room. 20
12 Chairs 25 12
Copy Press
Stamp
5
45 Rulers
4
& Ream Book Covers ..
6
9 Book Cases. 300
10 Feather Dusters .. 10
6 Goblets, 9 Soap Dishes, 10 Bars Soap, &c ..
5
2 Wheelbarrows, Hammers, Screw Drivers, Ink Measures, Shovels, Pick, Rake, Lanterns, Wood Boxes, Sinks, &c., 250 Desks and Lumber in process of manufacture at Department
Shop 2000
40 Boxes Forms. 100
50 Manuals of Commerce. 37
50 Childs' Book of Nature 25
50 " What to Read, &c." 25
50 Catalogues of Public Library 150 Munroe's Manual 50
25
11 Setts Cyclopedia. 550
12 Pen Racks. 2
18 Setts Animal Charts. 200
200 Tons Coal .. 1900
45 Cords Wood 400
500 Bushels Charcoal 87
100 Barrels Kindlings 20
40 Mason's Charts 235
8 Johnson's Atlas' . .
160
5 Hall Stoves 300
Carried forward, $50,642
$65,325
$801,175.
$866,500.
Total,
Brought forward, $50,642
Clocks. 1000
2 Library Tables 200
8 Teachers' Desks, High School .. 308 2 Book Cases, High School .. 290
154 Settees, High School 770
10
10 Feather Dusters, High School Various articles in Janitor's room, High School 15
15 large Coal Shovels 15
10 Axes 10
19 Pianos 5150
1 Melodeon 40
240 Settees 1200
5750 Text Books in hands of Teach- ers, Poor Scholars and in Office, 2300
15 Pairs Tongs.
20 Coal Sieves 5
1 Coal Screen
200 Gross Crayons ....
28
45 Gallons Ink
55 Ink Jugs
70 Ink Fillers ...
30
155 Ink Stands
38
220 Brooms.
44
260 Floor Brushes
260
300 Dust Brushes 35
75
150 Dust Pans
40
350 Water Dippers
35
150 Wash Basins
60
325 Yards Crash 32
210 Door Mats, 3 x 3 315
140 Door Mats, 2 x 3 .. 140
170 Waste Paper Baskets 127
450 Pointers 40
50 Dinner Bells
60
175 Table Bells 45
160 Thermometers 64
175 Blank Books 45
1125 Maps .. 300
6 Setts Guyot's large Maps 300
75 Map Stands. 150
20 Music Stands 40
290 Charts 85
350 Tablets
175
1025 Keys 205
130 Window Openers
30
2100 Chalk Erasers.
315
75 Globes
350
4200 Slates 300
75 Numeral Frames 75
120 Crickets 30
120 Table Covers. 36
Stationery 70
30 Setts Mason's Musical Charts .. 210
500 Volumes High School Library 750
250 Text Books High School ...... 200
Philosopeical and other Appar- atus at High School .. 3500
1 Grand Piano .. 1200
Value of Real Estate,
8
54 9
150 Water Pails.
104
CITY DOCUMENT .- No. 26.
TABLE.
Showing the Public Schools of the City, their Grade, the Teachers employed January 1st., 1872, and their respective Salaries.
SCHOOLS.
GRADE.
TEACHERS.
SAL'Y
Walnut St.,
English and classical High School,
Abner H. Davis.
$2300
Roswell Parish,
2000
Babson S. Ladd,
1200
Latham Fitch,
750
"
Florence V. Beane,
800
Ann C. Stewart,
800
"
Mary A. Parkhurst,
800
Mary E. Wilder,
700
:
Thomas st.,
Edward I. Comins,
1700
Dix st.,
66
Addison A. Hunt,
1700
Woodland st.,
Samuel E. Fitz,
1700
Lamartine st.,
Eliza J. Wallace,
500
Ledge st., 66
Minnie F. Whittier,
500
Belmont st.,
66
Vashti E. Hapgood,
575
Dix st.,
VIII.
Sarah E. Dyer,
575
Woodland st.,
Mary F. Wentworth,
575
Lamartine st.,
Mary E. Eastman,
575
Ledgde st.,
Mary F. Reed,
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